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Islamic State militants stage a suicide attack on a gas factory near Baghdad in which 14 people are killed and 20 wounded.

South Australian Museum researchers confounded by mysterious teeth previously unseen in beaked whales Scientists believe they have an uncovered an evolutionary throwback in a rare deep ocean whale that washed ashore on a...

Victim was attacked after a man forced his way into her south London home on Wednesday A man has been arrested in connection with the rape of a woman in her home. The woman, in her 70s, opened the door to her home in Pur...

Protests rocked the Venezuelan capital of Caracas Saturday, as rival factions of pro- and anti-government activists took to the street to add their voices to President Nicolas Maduro's latest attempt to exert some contro...

Egyptian officials say two Cairo courts have convicted and sentenced to five years in jail a total of 101 protesters for taking part in peaceful, anti-government demonstrations last month. …

A developing tropical cyclone has brought torrential rains over southern parts of the Bay of Bengal.

Call it the Trump Effect: Citizenship applications are spiking as legal immigrants rush to make themselves eligible to vote in November. Applications so far this year are up 12.8 percent over the same period in 2015, an ...

At least 11 people were injured after a Walt Disney World bus and an SUV collided in central Florida, authorities said Saturday.

One of the closest encounters between a comet and Earth has been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Supplies are lacking, electricity goes out, equipment is broken and patients lie in pools of blood as the country's economic crisis has exploded into a public health emergency.

The Coastguard has rescued 50 people from a vessel off the Isles of Scilly after it was reported to be taking on water.

Russia has a "problem" with doping and is "very sorry" that its cheating athletes were not caught sooner, the country's sports minister said. …

German police say they have arrested more than 100 people demonstrating against a coal mining in eastern Germany. …

The stench of past scandals is haunting Hillary Clinton as allegations regarding the family's foundation fester. News that the Clinton Global Initiative aided a company part-owned by a close female friend of Bill Clinton...

Dominicans face a dizzying array of choices Sunday in one of the most complex ballots in recent history, with eight candidates for president, all 222 members of Congress up for re-election and thousands of people vying f...

Venezuela's president threatens to take over idle factories and jail their owners following a decree of emergency powers this week

The world famous steam engine will continue its tour of Scotland after rail bosses undertook emergency safety checks on the line.

China's defense ministry says a U.S. report assessing its island-building efforts in the South China Sea has "hyped up" China's so-called military threat. …

The 1886 Winchester, the most expensive single firearm ever sold at auction, was owned by Henry Ware Lawton An 1886 Winchester rifle that once belonged to a man who helped capture Apache leader Geronimo has sold for $1.2...

Analysts say the collective decline of several current and former female leaders in South America points to a persistence of macho attitudes in the region.

Depending on your guru, there are up to 12 stages of grief after a death or divorce. There are also rituals for politicians caught in scandals, but Mayor de Blasio is headed for a new record with his serially desperate p...

Families of children affected by mental illness take action over "postcode lottery" provision hundreds of miles from their homes.